Thread: Highway Airplane tickets...Is there any defense?

Originally Posted by Hollywood85

paint your car the color of the pavement, get yellow racing stripes and drive in the center of the road

I wish there was a 'like button' on L4P.

It's actually one of the easiest tickets to fight. I fought it and won.

Definitely do trial by declaration. If the citing officer on the ground did not see you speed, the officer in the plane must prove that he kept his eyes on your car until you came to a complete stop.
In CA the ticket has a box that the officer checks if he did not see you speed.
And most of the time both officers wont write their defense. If both officers do not reply to your trial by declaration it is dismissed.

Originally Posted by tsubasa650

It's actually one of the easiest tickets to fight. I fought it and won.

Definitely do trial by declaration. If the citing officer on the ground did not see you speed, the officer in the plane must prove that he kept his eyes on your car until you came to a complete stop.
In CA the ticket has a box that the officer checks if he did not see you speed.
And most of the time both officers wont write their defense. If both officers do not reply to your trial by declaration it is dismissed.

^This right here, pretty much that way in all states.

Also the officer does not have to show you the reading. But if he refuses to then you can use it as part of your defense, especially if you pull the guns record and it is out of calibration. Or if the officer was sitting in his car with the windows up that can get it thrown out also. With the windows up the tint on the windows and difference in air density in and outside the car can affect the reading enough for it to be outside the acceptable variance boundaries. (This only affects laser guns as far as I know)

This is my solution...

um, was it Lidar, Radar, or VASCAR? That's kind of important....

what a useless way of spending tax money, i can't imagine how much it costs to run an airplane just to get speeders.
that's the stupid stuff that pisses me off about governments sometimes

It's actually not much, several municipalities share air support and share the proceeds of the fines. I know of many who make use of confiscated air planes/helicopters.

Originally Posted by jibaholic101

Is this how they are spending our tax dollars?!

This and the ever successful war on drugs.

Originally Posted by UCrazyKid

they clock you from a plane using mile markers on the road and a stopwatch, not exactly high tech and no way to fight it. Your best bet is to ask for a fine reduction and traffic school.

edit: planes don't use radar, that is why your V1 never alarmed.

This..